Jayme Closs’ aunt taking steps to be her guardian

By Chris Vetter | Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis. PUBLISHED: January 14, 2019 at 4:19 am | UPDATED: January 14, 2019 at 12:22 pm Jayme Closs spent Saturday morning like a normal teenage girl — curled up on the couch, playing with her dog, Molly, after getting a long-overdue good night’s rest, said her aunt, Jennifer Smith. “She feels comfortable here. We had a good night,” Smith said of her niece, who was abducted from her rural Barron County home on Oct. 15 in a case that has garnered national headlines. “She slept good last night.” Closs escaped from a home near the small town of Gordon in Douglas County Thursday and was found by Eau Claire resident Jeanne Nutter, who was walking her dog near her cabin there. The two then went to a neighbor’s home and Barron County law enforcement authorities were called. Smith, whose sister was Jayme’s mother, Denise Closs, said she has always been close to Jayme. Smith, who lives in Barron, is Jayme’s godmother, and she saw Jayme frequently. “We signed papers (Friday) for guardianship,” Smith said. “I did day care for her, for 12 years of her life.” In a phone interview with the Associated Press on Sunday, Jayme’s grandfather Robert Naig said that, considering the circumstances, the teen is holding up. “She’s doing exceptionally well for what she went through,” Naiberg said. “She’s in exceptionally good spirits.” Jayme has her own room already set up in Smith’s home. “(My family) went and purchased her… [Read full story]